Performers: Hana Blaziková (soprano), Barbora Kabátková (soprano), Vojtech Semerád (tenor, vielle), Ondrej Holub (tenor), Jaromír Nosek (bass), Jakub Kydlícek (recorders), Mélusine de Pas (viol)
Playing time: 75'
Recording date: January & April 2021 (Prague); released: 2022
This program concerns Johannes Tourout (fl.1460), cantor of the cappella of Emperor Frederick III, whose name has variously been rendered (per the liner notes) Tonrroutt, Thauranth, Tauront, Taurath, Torenth.... The most common spelling, prior to discovery of a document giving the current version, was apparently Touront. Meager biographical information suggests that he was from the diocese of Tournai.
The surviving mass cycle (4vv) does apparently include a Credo, but not as performed here. The three-voice Magnificat has been attributed hypothetically by Jaap van Benthem. And tracks #1, #4 & #7 do not survive with secular texts, but as sacred contrafacta, "reverse engineered" here.
The present ensemble had already included tracks by Tourout on prior albums. Their next program, mentioning Tourout:
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Todd M. McComb